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Our blog gives us a great way of keeping folks – our members and anyone else interested in our work – a little more plugged in to what’s happening in the world of endangered species advocacy, offering some insight into what we do and how we do it, and fostering conversation among our supporters, our staff, and others.

Every year, Rocky Mountain Wild creates high resolution maps showing the widespread impact of oil and gas development on Colorado. This year we have created a map of Wyoming as well. See where drilling is occurring and what lands have been leased by oil and gas companies for current and future development.

6/24/15 Denver, CO – A coalition of conservation organizations filed a lawsuit today in Federal Court to stop a controversial land exchange that would pave the way for the development of a tourist “village” to accommodate 8,000 people at the top of Wolf Creek Pass in southwestern Colorado. The land exchange, which was approved by […]

Colorado Central Magazine has published an excellent article about a project to map and protect wild BLM lands in Central and Eastern Colorado titled “Wild Connections: Mapping Potential Wilderness Areas.” Rocky Mountain Wild’s mapping played a key role in this project led by Wild Connections. You can help protect these areas by participating in the process to update the Eastern Colorado Resource Management Plan.

Studies in recent years by many researchers, including Dr. Greene, have shown that animals such as birds, mammals and even fish recognize the alarm signals of other species. Some can even eavesdrop on one another across classes. Red-breasted nuthatches listen to chickadees. Dozens of birds listen to tufted titmice, who act like the forest’s crossing guards. Squirrels and chipmunks eavesdrop on birds, sometimes adding their own thoughts. In Africa, vervet monkeys recognize predator alarm calls by superb starlings.

Senator Orrin Hatch is trying negate buyouts and retirements of grazing privileges done at Grand Staircase Escalante NM. If this passes, it will make it virtually impossible to retire other grazing privileges around the West. Please write or call Senator Cory Gardner and ask him to oppose S. 365

The Front Range Pika Project is a citizen science program that engages the public in conservation research on the American pika. Pika Patrol volunteers follow monitoring protocols to collect data about pikas and their habitat in high altitude field sites, thereby informing efforts to assess whether pikas are impacted by climate change.